hardline-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

hardline-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from sushiHex/hardline-mcp. It costs 1,624 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project-specific instructions for developing hardline-mcp, including how its Python code, SQLite store, processes, tests, and deployment work together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing hardline-mcp to follow its existing design rules and avoid breaking behavior involving messaging, jobs, sessions, or concurrent processes.
Why use it?
It explains constraints that are easy to miss, such as many processes sharing one live database while running different revisions of the code.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

This is sushiHex/hardline-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on hardline-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything hardline-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sushiHex/hardline-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sushiHex/hardline-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sushiHex/hardline-mcp

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CLAUDE.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hardline-mcp — working notes

The README explains what this is. This file is for working on it: the conventions, the gotchas that cost real time, and the rules the code already follows so new code follows them too.

The deployment this code actually lives in

Nearly every design decision here only makes sense against these three facts.

~20 hardline processes run at once, against one SQLite file. Each agent session spawns its own server over stdio. There is no coordinator.

It is an editable install. A process runs whatever the working tree said when it spawned — forever. So several different revisions of this code run against the same store simultaneously and indefinitely, and nothing restarts them together. A schema change is a change to a store that older code is still reading and writing.

The store is real. It holds hundreds of live messages and a jobs table. It is not a scratch database.

Three rules the code follows

New code should follow them too; several bugs came from breaking one.

Liveness is derived, never stored. A process that crashes cannot write "I died", so the only true answer is to ask the OS at read time. That is why jobs.lost and session liveness are both resolved on read and cost nothing until somebody asks. No heartbeat thread, no TTL, no reaper.

A pid is not an identity. A pid is reused once its process exits, so every durable record pairs it with a creation-time token (procid.process_key) and compares before acting. Killing or trusting on a bare pid means killing or trusting a stranger.

Absence is not evidence. The registry cannot see every consumer — a process on older code never registers, one whose announcement failed is absent, one behind an unanswerable probe looks gone. So absence from it never grants ownership of a lane. A claim needs positive evidence that nobody is there.

Related: liveness has three states, not two. UNKNOWN means the probe could not answer, which is not death. Reads are optimistic about it; deletion requires certainty.

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 lines

Changes

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hardline-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sushiHex/hardline-mcp (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 1,624 tokens to every session, about $0.0081 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-10.

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